Pavel Pechenkin

was born in 1956. When he was young he created slide-films and experimental video-poetic theatre. From 1985 he was assistant director at «Permtelefilm». In 1987 he founded one of the first independent film studios in USSR – Novy Kurs (New Course). He has made over 40 films as a director and producer. Petchenkin has been awarded multiple international film festivals’ prizes. He is the initiator for creating in Perm and Perm Krai a system of media-education. He is the President of IDFF Flahertiana, member of Russian Filmmakers Union, member of Russian Film Academy.

Makariev’s Day (0+)

Nyzhniy Novgorod Oblast, Vetluzhskiy Region, Vetluga river. We see a landscape with a deserted church surrounded with boundless forests, a spring, and a procession of pilgrims going to the Saint’s shrine. The authors of the film just tried to make see the real Russia that everyone can call his home place.